Arrow finally found the straw that broke the camel’s back…

Hey Arrow, it’s me.

I’m here because tonight I realized it’s time for me to leave. This is a toxic relationship, one in which you constantly apologize for your behavior and then turn around and do the horrible thing you did before but somehow make it 10x worse. It’s not healthy and so I’m severing our ties.

You may wonder what was the thing that pushed me over the edge, and while I can say it was several awful things over the course of your four year run tonight’s episode, in which you brutally murdered Amanda Waller, the Nick Fury of not only the Arrowverse but of DC Comics; one of the few truly badass characters on your show and one of two women of color was the final straw.

You see I held on through Laurel, Thea, Nyssa, Roy and Helena being shoved to the side or utterly off the show in favor of Felicity Sue, a character who isn’t actually a character but a collection of tics and storylines from other better characters; who was willing to kill an entire city to save her current slampiece; who used her previous slampiece’s death and all the money she inherited from him as way to finance her lifestyle with her current fling. I hung in through her single handedly destroying Palmer Technologies and being told she was good at her job while every single piece of evidence on film said the opposite.

I hung in through Ray Palmer, a member of the mothereffing  Justice League, being nothing more than a prop for Olicity. Then there is the cumbersome and boring set-up for Legends of Tomorrow that is glaringly awful especially as Birds Of Prey would have been the next organic choice, what with half of the characters already being on the show. I’ve put up with continual piss poor writing and fan pandering and being told, not shown, that Oliver was a hero when everything he actually does is self destructive, self-absorbed and endangers the people he supposedly cares about leading to death after death after death.

But tonight’s killing of Waller, the leaving of her body as if she were trash, the fact that you had Felicity Sue mock this amazing character, this woman of color, who was willing to do what needed to be done to protect the planet, not just the people she gave a damn about, was all too much.  

Between this and Professor Roofie-Rape ™  over on Legends I’m fairly certain that Guggenheim and company don’t understand just how racist and sexist their writing is.

But I do.

So goodbye Arrow, kindly go away forever.

No love,

Me